Example sentences of "[adj] it seem [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In the light of this it seems that severance is beneficial in that it stops one party acquiring the whole property in the event of the other 's death , but the actual shares of the parties would have to await determination by the Court ( or agreement ) .
2 In view of this it seems appropriate to study mucosal metabolism in ileal as well as colonic mucosa in UC patients and controls in the expectation that any abnormalities that could be detected in the histologically normal ileum of ulcerative colitis patients would be unlikely to be secondary phenomena .
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4 But in spite of all this it seems likely that during much of the nineteenth century this subterranean aspect of international relations was less important , and less prominent in the minds of both diplomats and policy-makers , than at any time in the last 300 years .
5 From this it seems evident that Jacques brought to London examples of Hotteterre instruments .
6 the ‘ fiction theory ’ must remain unsatisfactory unless it can explain what are the real facts in terms of individual rights and duties which underlie the fiction , and this it seems unable to do .
7 What was really said on that occasion is not on record but Wilberforce had just written a long review of Darwin 's book in the Quarterly Review and from this it seems clear that the good Bishop was by no means the fundamentalist reactionary which he is commonly supposed to have been .
8 In the 190s it seemed intolerable to the then bishop of Rome , Victor , that the churches in Asia Minor celebrated Easter on a different date , and to the distress of many he threatened excommunication on those who did not adopt the Roman date .
9 To many it seemed clear that if liberal capitalism ( of the sort advocated by Disraeli ) were not to be swept away by revolution , the largely illiterate workforce must be encouraged to believe that their welfare would be protected by the new rulers — the powerful middle class .
10 For many it seemed expedient and not seriously damaging to British interests to give the Soviets the benefit of many doubts — at least for the time being .
11 For an exciting moment at the beginning of 1918 it seemed possible that the pacifists might push Labour into collision with a Government still adamant that nothing short of overwhelming military victory could provide the basis for peace .
12 When this proved negative it seemed obvious that Crabb had drowned .
13 JFK is superbly made : at over three hours long it seems short .
14 Thus although there was no significant relationship between normality and P(A) from Study 3 it seems advisable to see whether this is also the case using normality ratings taken from the Groeger and Chapman study .
15 In short it seems unlikely , especially with younger children whose grasp on autonomy in learning and responsibility and social action needs much support , that the National Curriculum framework alone will achieve anything .
16 From the information available it seems likely that the total winter population of the county now rarely exceeds 4,000 birds .
17 From the above it seems clear that the following principles are established : 1 .
18 At first it seemed impossible to cope with two employers with their contrasting attitudes towards money .
19 At first it seemed big enough to drive a train through .
20 At first it seems easy to make the distinction between changes which are national and those which are international .
21 At first it seems plausible that admissible algorithms such as A* fail because the score of incoming speech h* ( n ) , is hard to estimate .
22 In general it seems fair to say that rather fewer Zuwaya were concerned with freedom of speech or opinion than with the threats to economic independence , which in their view was more closely bound up with identity and belonging .
23 The underlying reasons for this will be considered more fully below but in general it seems clear that large , volume production industries were characterised by low throughput per worker because of over-manning and insufficient intensity of capital use [ Bacon and Eltis , 1974 ; Pratten , 1971 , 1976a ] .
24 We turned back to the sprawling baggage , so profuse and various it seemed organic , mushrooming in the rich compost of arrivals and departures .
25 On 31 August 1948 it seemed certain that another glorious Hollywood career was about to be poured down the drain when Robert Mitchum was arrested for smoking marijuana .
26 From Deuteronomy 1:19–25 it seems plain that Moses intended to go straight on into the promised land at this point ; it was the people 's suggestion that they should send spies ahead .
27 In 771 it seemed likely that Desiderius would join forces with Carloman against Charles , but in December of that year , the younger Frankish king died .
28 Given that it seems clear that we may expect students who are well qualified in traditional terms to achieve relatively high levels of academic achievement , an important measure of success may be the extent to which institutions are able to take students who are not well qualified traditionally and achieve relatively high success rates with these students .
29 The grass is so dry it seems impossible that it can ever come to life again : yet the huge acacia trees along the riverbed are putting out blossom , delicate sprigs of green in anticipation of the rains to come .
30 It had been so vivid it seemed real , yet had she really been idiot enough to set out on a rough sea in a mere dinghy ?
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